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* Because of the vast amounts of atmospheric smoke caused by nuclear detonations, the smoke blocks out the sun, causing temperatures to plummet. This ends up causing crops to not being harvested for several years. Fortunately, a harvester is found to still be of use. Unfortunately, since there is no way to get gas, the narrator says it is one of the last times modern machines will be used to harvest crops. After that, all crops have to be used by hand.

* The biggest piece of NightmareFuel about this film: ''it would really happen in the event of a nuclear war.'' This movie is almost non-fiction with how heavily it [[ShownTheirWork shows its work.]] After all the nukes drop, there won't even be the violent glamor of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' or ''Film/MadMax'' style adventures; we'll all just ''die''. [[FateWorseThanDeath And it sure as hell]] ''[[FateWorseThanDeath wouldn't]]'' [[FateWorseThanDeath be a quick death, either]].

* The biggest piece of NightmareFuel about this film: ''it would really happen in the event of a nuclear war.'' This movie is almost non-fiction with how heavily it [[ShownTheirWork shows its work.]] After all the nukes drop, there won't even be the violent glamor of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' or ''Film/MadMax'' style adventures; we'll all just ''die''. ''And it wouldn't be a quick death either.''
** Actually, it's even ''worse'' than that. This film depicts a ''best''-case scenario, and it's been described increasingly as such by many critics and researchers. After all, there are still a few people left alive after thirteen years by the end of the film...chances are, the true outcome would be ''far, far'' worse.

** The musical sting at the end of each ''Protect and Survive'' video is Nightmare Fuel on its own.

--> ''ATTACK WARNING RED. ATTACK WARNING RED.''

** The [[HeroicBSoD absolutely dumbstruck reaction]] that Bob, Jimmy's friend, has to the explosion over RAF Finningley is haunting as well as absolutely tragic. [[DeerInTheHeadlights He can only stare wide-eyed at the resulting mushroom cloud]], visibly broken by the realization that everything he'd most feared has come to pass.

* When Ruth walks around in the rubble after the explosion. The only sound is coming from the wind, and she sees burnt corpses, a mother looking for her daughter, a lost child, and a delusional woman who is holding her clearly burnt-to-death baby. The image of that delusional woman may perhaps be one of the most haunting still images ever shot of a rehearsed pose.
** This is made a lot more terrifying when you notice that the baby's body is burnt, but the clothes aren't. The woman kept the body and changed the clothes!

* When Ruth has to give birth to her daughter, Jane, and cut the umbilical cord with her teeth.

* When you realize that all the education that the next generation is getting comes from an old learning video. The literacy rate will become extremely low, if not flat out nonexistant.
* When Ruth dies. By her reaction, it seems that Jane either doesn't know that her mother is dead or understands that she is of no use to her anymore, and leaves her body after jiggling it a few times. The scary part comes when you realize that Jane has nobody to take care of her anymore. Also doubles as a TearJerker.

* When Jane gives birth to a stillborn, deformed baby and screams in terror as a result. The movie ends there and sets the overall tone that humanity is finished as the fallout from the initial attacks all those years ago have done its damage.

* For many Britons (especially those who live in/near Sheffield), this film hit close to home and it hit hard. Those OopNorth are so used to seeing [[BigApplesauce New York]]/[[HollywoodCalifornia LA]]/[[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]]/[[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]] blown up that it doesn't affect them, but when [[AliensInCardiff it's a city in Yorkshire]]...

** "The attack's warning's for bloody ''real''!"

** Apparently the artificial method they used to recreate the mushroom cloud - a giant smoke bomb set off near RAF Finningley - led to genuine panic on the streets. People thought an ''actual nuclear weapon'' had just been detonated. Could've been a highly disturbing bit of EnforcedMethodActing had they been rolling the film.

* Ruth's almost animalistic crying as she tries to grind some stolen corn into flour. You can hear the raw, savage desperation of a starving woman with nothing to live for...who has to carry on living anyway.
* It's implied that Ruth is forced to trade sexual favours for a few dead rats.

** Also worth mentioning that when she drops to the ground just before her death...Nobody but her daughter seems to notice. Everyone else, numb to death at this point, just carries on working the fields.

** How Jane's baby was conceived. Jane refuses to give some bread to one of the youths she raided an army depot for food with and he decides to try and snatch it off her. In the struggle it seems that he lost interest in the food and instead was hungry for something else. Keep in mind, Jane and the boy are both severely undereducated and can barely even speak, meaning they probably have no idea what sex even is. It would seem the boy was all of a sudden overcome with an animalistic urge to have sex with Jane. There's no way Jane would be able to give consent, so she was- for all intents and purposes- raped.

[[caption-width-right:350: Trust this film when it shows you this is the closest you'll '''''ever''''' want to come to nuclear war.]]

** "The attack's for bloody ''real''!"

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** Actually, it's ''much worse'' than that. This film depicts a ''best''-case scenario, and has been described as such by many critics and researchers more recently. After all, there are still a few people left alive after thirteen years by the end of the film...chances are, the true outcome would be ''far, far'' worse.

** Actually, it's ''much worse'' than that. This film depicts a ''best''-case scenario, as has been described by many critics and researchers more recently. After all, there are still a few people left alive after thirteen years by the end of the film...chances are, the true outcome would be ''far, far'' worse.

** Actually, it's ''much worse'' than that. This film depicts a ''best''-case scenario. After all, there are still a few people left alive after thirteen years by the end of the film...chances are, the true outcome would be ''far, far'' worse.

** Actually, it's ''worse'' than that. This film depicts a ''best-case scenario''. After all, there are still a few people left alive after thirteen years by the end of the film...chances are, that wouldn't be the case in real life.

* The HANDEL system warning announcing a nuclear strike is inbound. "Attack Warning: Red! Attack Warning: Red!"
** "The attack's for bloody real!"

* Ruth's almost animalistic crying as she tries to grind some stolen corn into flour. You can hear the raw, savage desperation of a starving woman with nothing to live for...Who has to carry on living anyway.

* For many Britons (especially those who live in/near Sheffield), this film hit close to home and it hit hard. Those OopNorth are so used to seeing [[BigApplesauce New York]]/LA/[[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]]/[[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]] blown up it doesn't affect them, but when [[AliensInCardiff it's a city in Yorkshire]]...

* The British Government's actual ''Protect and Survive'' public information films that the film were used, as what the film presents is pretty much what we were expected to do if the five-minute warning went off. Two of the short films are available [[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_warnings.htm here]] and [[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_casualties.htm here]]; excerpts include "''If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house ... If you have had a body in the house for more than five days, and if it is safe to go outside, then you should bury the body for the time being in a trench, or cover it with earth, and mark the spot of the burial''". Terrifying in their own right, even more so if you consider the circumstances in which the government would have assented to broadcast these.

* The biggest piece of NightmareFuel about this film: ''it would really happen in the event of a nuclear war.'' This movie is almost non-fiction with how heavily it [[ShownTheirWork shows its work.]] After all the nukes drop, there won't even be the discomfort of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' or ''Film/MadMax'' style adventures; we'll all just ''die''. ''And it wouldn't be a quick death either.''

** How Jane's baby was conceived. Jane refuses to give some bread to one of the young men she raided an army depot for food with and he decides to try and snatch it off her. In the struggle it seems that he lost interest in the food and instead was hungry for something else. Keep in mind, Jane and the man are both severely undereducated and can barely even speak, meaning they probably have no idea what sex even is. It would seem the man was all of a sudden overcome with an animalistic urge to have sex with Jane. There's no way Jane would be able to give consent, so she was- for all intents and purposes- raped.

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[[caption-width-right:340: A woman, who has just survived a nuclear bomb, holding her child, [[HarmfulToMinors who hasn't.]]]]

* For many Britons (especially those who live in/near Sheffield), this film hit close to home and it hit hard. Those OopNorth are so used to seeing [[BigApplesauce New York]]/LA/[[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]]/[[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]] blown up it doesn't affect them, but when it's a city in Yorkshire...

When you watch a movie that realistically depicts the decay of humanity after a nuclear attack, there's no doubt that there will be some nightmares. This is basically ''NightmareFuel : The Movie''...

** Apparently the artificial method they used to recreate the mushroom cloud - a giant smoke bomb set off near RAF Finningley - led to genuine panic on the streets. People thought an ''actuall nuclear weapon'' had just been detonated. Could've been a highly disturbing bit of EnforcedMethodActing had they been rolling the film.

* "Attack warning: red! Attack warning: red!"

** Apparently the artificial method they used to recreate the mushroom cloud led to actual genuine panic on the streets. Could've been a highly disturbing bit of EnforcedMethodActing had they been rolling the film.

* The biggest piece of NightmareFuel about this film: ''it would really happen in the event of a nuclear war.'' This movie is almost non-fiction with how heavily it [[ShownTheirWork shows its work.]] If nukes drop, there won't be any ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' or ''Film/MadMax'' style adventures; we'll all just ''die''.

* When Ruth walks around in the rubble after the explosion. The only sound is coming from the wind, and she sees burnt corpses, a mother looking for her daughter, a lost child, and a delusional woman who is holding her clearly burnt-to-death baby. The image of that delusional woman, may perhaps be one of the most haunting still images ever shot of a rehearsed pose.